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Six pieces, all longer than they need to be, on the part of motoring that Durban does more than anywhere else in the country. Collection points, the excess, cross-border paperwork, fuel and tolls, what to actually book for a weekend, and the handover that decides everything else.
Airport collection is convenient and it is never free. City collection is cheaper and costs you a trip to the counter. The right answer depends less on money than on what you are doing in the first hour after you get the keys.
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Everybody compares day rates because day rates are what the booking sites show. The number that decides whether a hire was cheap or ruinous is the excess, and it is usually three screens deep.
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A hired car does not belong to you, which is why a border official wants paper proving you may have it there. Getting that paper is routine, and it is routine only if you start a week early.
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Three clauses decide the running cost of a hire: how you return the tank, how many kilometres you may do, and how much the road itself charges. None of them is on the first page of the quote.
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The counter will try to sell you an upgrade. Sometimes the upgrade is the right call and sometimes it is a bigger car with worse aircon. Here is how we choose for the routes people actually drive from here.
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A quarter of an hour at collection is the best value in the whole transaction. Everything that goes wrong later is decided by what you recorded, or failed to record, in the parking bay.
Read the pieceEvery rand figure on this site is indicative, drawn from what people in this circle have actually paid in and around Durban, and it moves with the season. December costs more. Treat the numbers as a bracket to argue inside, not a quotation.
A hire agreement takes us twenty minutes to read and can take you a year to argue about. Telephone the Florida Road number or fill in the form, tell us the dates and the route, and we will tell you what the week will really cost.